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Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by ftr1200 »

barbazoo wrote: post #87
ftr1200 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use my Gmail drafts as permanent, in-sync notes (with subject as the title of each note) Why? - No extra app needed - Keeps them quite hidden / private / secure - Always easy access (I always have emails open) - In sync with different devices

> Gmail drafts > Keeps them quite hidden / private / secure Not hidden from Google obviously :) At that point, why not just use Keep at that point to get proper support for notes?

ha, well, nothing to hide to that extent.

I don't know about Keep, but it's another app, which is kind of my point - I already use Gmail.

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by divbzero »

emacsen wrote: post #6

As a file format, this is just fine, but I feel like there's some conflation between a file format and software meant to interact with that format. I use plain text accounting for my business, and it's lovely to be able to enter bookkeeping data with a plain text editor and keep it all under version control, but the next step is using a program such as hledger or beancount to work with that data. I'd love to work wit…

todo.txt accomplished this with community apps that provided web and mobile interfaces to the text file: http://todotxt.org/

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by setopt »

hoherd wrote: post #69

I do something similar for daily notes for work. I have a shell alias `tdw` for `TODO work` which opens a YYYY-MM.md file in vim. Inside of that markdown file I use a vim macro that generates a date similar to what is shown in calendar.txt, where I take notes about what I am working on and what I have worked on. Here's ane example of what it looks like: ## 2025-02-27 W09 Thursday - Team standup - Looking up flights t…

For people interested in non-Vim alternatives, Logseq and Org-mode both streamline a very similar workflow. (I’m one of those who eventually migrated from Vim to Emacs because of Org-mode, now combined with Howm-mode.)

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by [deleted] »

emacsen wrote: post #6

As a file format, this is just fine, but I feel like there's some conflation between a file format and software meant to interact with that format. I use plain text accounting for my business, and it's lovely to be able to enter bookkeeping data with a plain text editor and keep it all under version control, but the next step is using a program such as hledger or beancount to work with that data. I'd love to work wit…

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Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by setopt »

bArray wrote: post #29

My format used to be as follows: * [ ] YYYY-MM-DD * [ ] 1800: Dinner with parents * [x] Walk the dog * [ ] YYYY-MM-DD * [ ] 0900: Interview new recruit * [ ] Prepare interview questions * [ ] Upload result to HR system This worked really well for me and was easily searchable. One benefit would be that it is easily trackable in Git. These days I have a little A6 lined notebook and manually list tasks there. Each page…

Why did you make the day itself into a checkbox? Did you use this for weekly reviews or something?

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by stavros »

hoherd wrote: post #69

I do something similar for daily notes for work. I have a shell alias `tdw` for `TODO work` which opens a YYYY-MM.md file in vim. Inside of that markdown file I use a vim macro that generates a date similar to what is shown in calendar.txt, where I take notes about what I am working on and what I have worked on. Here's ane example of what it looks like: ## 2025-02-27 W09 Thursday - Team standup - Looking up flights t…

I made a small utility to make this easier:

https://pypi.org/project/dia/

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by zaik »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #64
guessmyname wrote: post #8

I created a super-simple CalDav-esque web endpoint in my personal website that receives HTTP requests from a command line tool, stores the calendar events, and then returns them as a dynamic ICS file. Then, I use Apple’s Calendar app to subscribe to a “hidden” URL and iCloud automatically distributes the subscription to all my devices. It sounds super dumb but it works so well. The main feature is that I can categori…

This is close to what I want. I manage all my calendars in radical caldav server and want a sharable calendar that just shows the empty spots between all calendars with minimal detail fo easy scheduling.

It would be nice if Radicale could serve a FREEBUSY URL which takes contents from a your calendars. Some applications support this format and can help with scheduling meetings. I never got to use it in practice though.

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by philsnow »

jrm4 wrote: post #79

In the spirit of friendly competition; I gotta argue that Skroll's "Remind" supercedes this in every way. More flexible and more powerful.

Absolutely agree. Remind has been around for literally decades and so has tons of user discussions that are easily searchable.

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by philsnow »

janpot wrote: post #81

my dad keeps his calendar in an excel file with almost the exact same format except he omits dates with no entries. Every week he prints a new version of this on a single A4 which he folds and keeps in his wallet. new events are hand written at the bottom and get included in the excel weekly. he's been doing this for as long as I can remember.

I love having the system-of-record being something powerful on a laptop, alongside having some paper artifact with just a small constrained view, which you update with a pencil and then reconcile with the SoR later.

This is what I do for todos and reminders, with a few index cards binder-clipped together with a tiny pen. I use [0]; its size is right but it’s just a ballpoint refill that isn’t particularly great. Using it makes me miss my typical fine-tip gel pens. Anybody else use this kind of system and have a tiny pen to recommend?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776LK634

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by p4bl0 »

I did something like this for years before having to switch to an actual calendar app. A text calendar has a lot of advantages, like easily being able to have a list of the current and next days event displayed each time you open a terminal by putting the right call in your .bashrc :).

My text calendar management script is still available here: https://code.up8.edu/pablo/myutils/-/blob/master/kal

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